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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Cladus: Craniata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii
Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri
Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii
Infraclassis: Teleostei
Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai
Supercohors: Clupeocephala
Cohors: Euteleosteomorpha
Subcohors: Neoteleostei
Infracohors: Eurypterygia
Sectio: Ctenosquamata
Subsectio: Acanthomorphata
Divisio/Superordo: Acanthopterygii
Subdivisio: Percomorphaceae
Series: Ovalentaria
Superordo: Cichlomorphae
Ordo: Cichliformes

Familia: Cichlidae
Subfamilia: Pseudocrenilabrinae
Tribus: Haplochromini
Genus: Xystichromis
Species: X. bayoni – X. nuchisquamulatus – X. phytophagus
Name

Xystichromis Greenwood, 1980: 46
Xistichromis [lapsus], van Oijen, 1996: 84, 89, 101

Type species: Chromis nuchisquamulatus Hilgendorf, 1888
Type by original designation
Synonymy
Treated as synonym of Haplochromis by van Oijen et al., 1991: 101 and van Oijen, 1996
Treated as valid genus by Poll & Gosse, 1995: 284
Treated as status uncertain by Seegers, 2008: 166

References

Greenwood, P.H. 1980: Towards a phyletic classification of the 'genus' Haplochromis (Pisces, Cichlidae) and related taxa. Part II; the species from Lakes Victoria, Nabugabo, Edward, George and Kivu. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), zoology, 39(1): 1–101. BHL
Poll, M. & Gosse, J.-P. 1995: Genera des poissons d'eau douce de l'Afrique. Mémoire de la Classe des Sciences. Académie royale de Belgique. Genera des poissons d'eau douce de l'Afrique, 9: 1–324.
Seegers, L. 2008: The fishes collected by G. A. Fischer in East Africa in 1883 and 1885/86. Zoosystematics and Evolution, 84 (2): 149–195. DOI: 10.1002/zoos.200800003
van Oijen, M.J.P. 1996. The generic classification of the haplochromine cichlids of Lake Victoria, East Africa. Zoologische Verhandelingen 302: 57–110. PDF. Reference page.
Van Oijen, M.J.P., Snoeks, J., Skelton, P.H., Maréchal, C. and Teugels, G.G. 1991: Haplochromis (pp. 100-184). In: Daget et al. 1991. Check-list of the freshwater fishes of Africa. CLOFFA 4.

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